3Jo 3 | TNotes | STEP | 1:3 The traveling teachers (literally brothers ) were probably John’s emissaries who traveled from church to church, teaching the Good News and encouraging Christians (see 1:5 , 10 ). • you are living according to the truth: Gaius was faithful to the apostolic gospel of Jesus Christ. The false teachers denied the reality of the incarnation or the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ (cp. 1 Jn 4:1-3 ).

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1:3 ^a The traveling teachers (literally brothers) were probably John’s emissaries who traveled from church to church, teaching the Good News and encouraging Christians (see 1:5 ^b, 10 ^c).

• you are living according to the truth: Gaius was faithful to the apostolic gospel of Jesus Christ. The false teachers denied the reality of the incarnation or the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ (cp. 1 Jn 4:1-3 ^d).